"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied……" — Josiah Strong
"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."
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24 Quotes by Josiah Strong
Josiah Strong has 24 quotes on this site.
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be…
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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United…
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The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that…
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more…
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
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It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon…
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
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Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded…
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There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither…
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More Arable Quotes
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If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no…
— Jacque Fresco
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African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in…
— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
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If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land…
— E. O. Wilson
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We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
— Jeremy Grantham
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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and…
— Abraham Cowley
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an…
— Salman Rushdie
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Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental…
— Tristram Stuart
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Five generations of back ache, wrinkles and empty penny jars.. why do we do it?! Dur its farming, simply loving…
— Laura Claxton
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